Charles B. Griffith

Writing

Charles B. Griffith

Born 1930-09-23 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Acting credits

The Little Shop of Horrors poster
6.3

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

Death Race 2000 poster
6.2

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Death Race 2000

1975

The She Beast poster
5.0

A young woman is driving alongside a lake. She has an accident and the car plunges into the water. Her body is then possessed by the spirit of an 18th-century witch who was killed by local villagers, and is bent on avenging herself on them.

The She Beast

1966

Eating Raoul poster
6.5

A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.

Eating Raoul

1982

Howard poster
6.8

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.

Howard

2018

Hollywood Boulevard poster
5.6

A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fare, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.

Hollywood Boulevard

1976

Attack of the Crab Monsters poster
5.2

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Attack of the Crab Monsters

1957

Atlas poster
3.4

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Atlas

1961

Smokey Bites the Dust poster
2.8

Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.

Smokey Bites the Dust

1981

It Conquered the World poster
4.9

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

It Conquered the World

1956

Behind the camera

The Little Shop of Horrors poster
6.3

Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot survive without human flesh and blood.

The Little Shop of Horrors

1960

Death Race 2000 poster
6.2

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.

Death Race 2000

1975

Attack of the Crab Monsters poster
5.2

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

Attack of the Crab Monsters

1957

Atlas poster
3.4

Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

Atlas

1961

Eat My Dust poster
5.8

Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.

Eat My Dust

1976

Eat My Dust poster
5.8

Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.

Eat My Dust

1976

The Wild Angels poster
5.5

A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its members is injured, an event that will cause an orgy of violence and destruction.

The Wild Angels

1966

Smokey Bites the Dust poster
2.8

Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.

Smokey Bites the Dust

1981

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II poster
2.5

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenage boy with magical powers, can restore peace to the land with the help of a bumbling elder, wizard and a hero in each kingdom. Tyor fights alongside them and eventually becomes a powerful wizard in his own right.

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

1989

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II poster
2.5

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenage boy with magical powers, can restore peace to the land with the help of a bumbling elder, wizard and a hero in each kingdom. Tyor fights alongside them and eventually becomes a powerful wizard in his own right.

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

1989

A Bucket of Blood poster
6.6

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

1959

Gunslinger poster
4.3

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Gunslinger

1956

The Undead poster
4.5

Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.

The Undead

1957

Forbidden Island poster
6.3

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

Forbidden Island poster
6.3

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

Forbidden Island poster
6.3

Tropical island underwater scuba diving swimming murder thriller, in which divers and thieves search for a sunken treasure.

Forbidden Island

1959

It Conquered the World poster
4.9

An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.

It Conquered the World

1956

A Bucket of Blood poster
5.0

Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.

A Bucket of Blood

1995

Creature from the Haunted Sea poster
3.6

A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.

Creature from the Haunted Sea

1961

The Swinging Barmaids poster
4.7

A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.

The Swinging Barmaids

1975

Flesh and the Spur poster
4.9

A young man searches for his brother's killer with the help of a gunfighter, a native woman and a traveling medicine man.

Flesh and the Spur

1956

Beast from Haunted Cave poster
4.5

A gold thief and his gang use a skier's lodge and meet a monster covered with cobwebs.

Beast from Haunted Cave

1959

Not of This Earth poster
4.3

An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.

Not of This Earth

1995

Not of This Earth poster
5.7

An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh human blood for his people.

Not of This Earth

1957